Gurugram: After missing a number of deadlines, the Indian National Highway Authority (NHAI) is likely to open U-turn underpass at Sirhaul Toll Plaza near the atmosphere mall at Delhi-Gurugram Expressway to the public this week.
Sustainable requests from local residents, Underpass four lines 377 meters will help passengers to avoid going to Rajokri in Delhi for taking U-Round to Mall AmbaCT, DLF Cyber City and adjoining areas.
At present, commuters must take an additional four kilometers to take Rajokri U-turn, which during peak traffic hours can take an additional 45 minutes.
The long route also worsens traffic congestion on the Delhi-Gurugram border.
The Indian National Highway Authority (NHAI), which began to build an underpass in January 2019, has set an early 18-month deadline for project resolution but officials said work on underpounded underpass due to Covid-19 pandemics, the lack of further work, repeated prohibitions on construction High pollution, waterlogging due to heavy rainfall, and delays in the toll gate shift and other utilities.
On Sunday, a NHAI official told Tii, “Most of the work in the underpass has been completed and the rest is being accelerated.
Only the road carpet must be done, which is expected to be completed in the next few days.
We hope to complete development on October 15.
“Minister of Road Transportation and Jalan Raya Nitin Gadkari, during a visit to Gurugram in September to examine the construction of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, has announced that underpasses will be opened on October 15 and” will provide assistance to the people in both Delhi and Haryana ” .
“Underpass is almost fully prepared, only the usage course must be resolved in the underpass box section.
Apart from this, everything else, including signage and lights, has been completed,” said another NHAI official, added that the work to clean the underpass began Sunday.
Underpass is being built at a cost of Rs 102.94 Crore, with expenses distributed by NHAI (50%), atmosphere (25%), and DLF (25%).
The structure is part of a bigger project to reduce the freeway Delhi-Turugram.
The second structure is planned as part of the project – across the U-Round in Shankar Chowk – inaugurated in November last year.
Ambience Island Resident Parta Chatterjee said he had taken a house near the border to ensure that Delhi and Gurugram would be easily accessible but crossing the border every day to go to his office in Cyber City is now a “nightmare”.
“In fact, on the few days I stayed back to the office until 9pm only to avoid traffic.
This underpass will relieve my life on a large scale,” Chatterjee said.
Netra Rai, a resident of sector 54 said the underpass would not only cut the trip time to the atmosphere mall and also made it easier for those who wanted to go home by taxi.
“Until now, it took about 30 minutes just to get a taxi from the mall because the application mostly picked up the driver on the road to Delhi who did not want to pay the toll road, traveled to Rajokri and then came to choose passengers,” he added.
Delhi-GGM Travel: Underpass atmosphere to open this week
